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What up? Yeah my finals were way too easy and a piece of cake if I do say so myself. I'm thinking straight A's.....I'm such a loser. Lol. Anyways....enough about me. How are you people out there surfing and looking for a good story? Look no further cause there's a good story right here. Okay? Okay. Now down to business. Reviews.....oh how I love reviews! When I get online and it says I have something in my inbox, I think o wouldn't it be lovely if it was a review! But then I go to it and it ends up to be another chapter from my author alerts! O well... And so here are the replies to the people who actually reviewed. You know I love you!!
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A/N: Hum diddy hum diddy hum. I'm thinking on what to write. I do this a lot. I'll just start babbling while I think about what I want to write. Hmmmmm. Okay! I got it! Here's the update!
EDIT(July 14): I am sooooo sorry about not posting!!!!! Explanation at the bottom!
Chapter 13: Pointless
Lily knew something was up with the boys when the girls arrived down in the common room the next morning. The three of them each had dark circles under their eyes and they were leaning on each other to stay upright. The girls exchanged confused glances and went to join them. Lily noticed Sirius snoring silently on James' shoulder.
"Late night last night boys?" Lily asked them teasingly.
James looked at her blankly. "You could say that."
Melissa was giggling silently at Sirius. She had a mischievous look in her eye. She reached out her hand and poked Sirius hard enough so that he was knocked down. He immediately woke up and shouted, "I didn't do it! It was James!"
That sent the rest of the girls into a fit of giggles. Peter and James managed a weary chuckle. Sirius looked at them in a sort of innocent puppy dog manner, which made them laugh even harder. "Whadja do that for?" Sirius mumbled, still sitting there pitifully.
Melissa, still giggling, extended a hand to help him up and he took it. "I'm sorry," she apologized. "It was simply too hard to resist."
Sirius glared at her and retorted, "You're a mean sort of girl. You know that?"
Melissa flipped her hair and said in an airy voice, "Oh, you know you love me."
Sirius snorted but didn't say anything. Lily rolled her eyes. Melissa had a habit of being a drama queen. She turned her attention back to James who looked like he was sleeping with his eyes open. She crept up to him and waved a hand in front of his face. He didn't seem to notice. She rolled her eyes again and yelled into his ear, "James!"
"Huh? What?" James asked startled. He started to blink repeatedly at Lily.
"James do you think you could stay awake long enough to tell us what you guys were doing up after hours?" Lily asked in a no-funny-business kind of tone.
James gave her a look. "What are you, my mother?" he muttered, yawning.
Lily gave him a cold look and crossed her arms over her chest. "No, but I thought I was your friend."
"Aw Lily, don't mind James," Peter drawled. "He turns into a bit of a wanker when he doesn't get enough sleep."
"I'm standing right here you know."
"That's probably why he said it," Lily retorted.
James rubbed his eyes repeatedly before sighing. "I'm sorry alright. You want to know where we were?" James asked them. He didn't wait for them to answer or for Sirius and Peter to protest. "We were up at 1-bloody-o'clock in the morning exploring the castle, looking for secret passages while hoping we didn't get caught by Filch and his evil cat."
They were all speechless for a second before Shannon coughed. "Well, I think that's a pretty good explanation," she said looking at Lily for affirmation.
Lily thought about it for a moment. It was really hard to be mad at James when he was using the puppy eyes, like he was at the moment. Lily had given into that look 2 times in the last 24 hours. She shrugged and said casually, "I guess so."
"Alrighty then!" Sirius exclaimed, rubbing his hands together. "Now that we've cleared up that little matter up, can we go down to breakfast? I'm starving."
"Is there a time when you're not starving?" Kelly asked him jokingly as they made their way down.
"Well..."
"That was a rhetorical question."
Lily tuned them out and looked at James walking next to her. He still looked like he was half asleep. Lily nudged him with her elbow and he turned abruptly to look at her questionably. "I'm sorry about before. I didn't mean to pry," she confessed quietly.
James waved away her apology. "Don't be silly. You were just asking a question. I'm the one who should be sorry."
They were silent for another moment before Lily started to giggle. "We fight over the most stupid of things."
James grinned. "Yeah, we sure do," he agreed. He then stuck out his right hand to her. "Friends?"
Lily put her hand in his and shook on it. "The best."
They walked in a companionable silence, for a few seconds, behind their friends. "So did you guys find anything interesting last night?" Lily asked him suddenly.
"Not a single bloody thing," James replied. He thoughtfully paused for a couple seconds. "Correction, we found this extremely peculiar door on the seventh floor."
He then explained how they'd almost been caught by Filch, but that the door had appeared as though out of thin air, and how it had disappeared afterwards. By the time they had reached the Great Hall, Lily and James began thinking of possible explanations for the door.
"Maybe you did wandless magic, and summoned the door or something," Lily suggested. "I've read up on that and it's very complicated, but it could happen."
"Somehow, I don't think I'm powerful enough to do that kind of magic," James told her, taking a seat next to Sirius and filling his plate. "It has to be something else."
"Yes, I guess," Lily replied, munching on a biscuit. She looked at her schedule. Charms first, then Double History of Magic, Lunch, then Double Defense Against the Dark Arts, then lastly Transfiguration. Not that bad, Lily thought to herself. "If you guys want to sleep, we have Binn's class for second period," Lily told them mock-seriously.
The three boys sighed happily and dug enthusiastically into their meal. Lily rolled her eyes at them and turned to Melissa across the table from her. "What do you think we'll do in Charms today?" Lily asked her. Charms was both of theirs favorite subject.
Melissa face grew thoughtful. "Well we finished wand movements last week, and I think Professor Flitwick said we would start to learn some simple spells soon," Her expression grew excited. "Maybe we'll learn that groovy levitation spell he demonstrated before."
"I think he said we would learn that towards the end of October," Lily disagreed.
"I don't get what you two find so interesting about Charms," Sirius interjected. "In my opinion, Transfiguration is much better."
"I'm sorry, but did we ask for your opinion?" Melissa inquired.
"Er..."
"That's what I thought," Melissa stated, before turning her attention back to Lily.
Lily laughed out loud at Sirius blank expression as he stared at Melissa. Over the last couple of weeks, Lily had learned that Melissa was a very sarcastic person (A/N: Which I really am) and she was the only person in the school that could make Sirius go speechless. And that was really saying something because Sirius rarely ran out of things to say.
Lily opened her mouth to say something but was immediately interrupted by the clanging of silverware against a goblet. She focused her attention to the staff table where Professor Dumbledore had gotten up to address the hall. Silence rang out through the halls after a couple of seconds and everyone remained alert to hear what their Headmaster had to say.
"Please pardon me for interrupting your breakfast. I just want to make one small announcement," Dumbledore declared. "To those of you who wish to represent your House on your House Quidditch Team, tryouts will begin the second weekend of October. To tryout you must contact Madam Hooch who will sign you up and tell you when your House's tryout will be. Also, you must be above second year in order to be eligible to tryout as first years are not allowed broomsticks." At this he paused, and Lily could swear his gaze swept over to the Slytherin table, where Lucius Malfoy squirmed uncomfortable. Professor Dumbledore smiled pleasantly before turning back to the rest of the hall. "And that's enough of this old man's ramblings. That is all for now. Enjoy the rest of your breakfast and have a good day."
Conversations broke out amongst the hall as Dumbledore sat back down.
"It's completely disgusting that they don't allow first years to tryout for the Quidditch Team. And it's even worse that they don't allow us to bring our broomsticks," James said resentfully.
"Think about it logically though James," Lily started teasingly. "Would you really want Melissa on her own broom, trying out for the team, without a year's worth of flying lessons?"
"That's a good poi—Hey!" Melissa exclaimed indignantly.
This set Lily and her friends into a fit of giggles.
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The day was entirely too long in Lily's opinion. Lessons started off perfectly fine as Professor Flitwick started them on the Illumination Charm.
"This is a very simple charm," the tiny professor explained to the class. "All you have to do it point your wand out and say very clearly 'Lumos'."
Flitwick had them annunciate the incantation for a couple seconds then he extinguished all the candles and closed the curtains in the classroom. It was as dark as it could be at 9 o'clock in the morning. He then had them practice the spell with their wands. Lily got the right effect the second time she tried and was the first in the class to succeed.
"Well done, Miss Evans. Five points to Gryffindor," Flitwick awarded. Lily felt very pleased with herself indeed.
Nothing eventful happened in History of Magic. Lily diligently took notes as usual, while at the next table over James, Sirius, and Peter fell asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary there, Lily thought to herself. Next to her Melissa, who had taken out a portable WWN that she had borrowed from Shannon, was bobbing her head to the music and silently mouthing the words. Behind her, Shannon and Kelly had taken out a copy of Cosmowitch, a new teen witch magazine that had just come out. Lily roller her eyes at all of them and sighed. She knew that later on she would most likely perform a Duplicator Charm on her notes for all of her friends. The absence of Remus was felt most in History of Magic for Lily, because he was usually the only other person who actually took notes with her.
After a pleasant Lunch where, after their refreshing nap in History of Magic, James, Peter, and Sirius ate very hardily, the group trudged up to Defense Against the Dark Arts. This had to be Lily's least favorite class right after Potions. Professor Blackheart was not the easiest person to get along with and he was Lily's second to least favorite teacher right behind Professor Devilin. He seemed in a particularly bad mood that day.
"Where's your little friend Lupin today?" he sneered at them while taking attendance.
"He had to go and visit his sick mother," James told him defiantly. Lily knew that James really disliked Professor Blackheart. Lily didn't know why James seemed to hate him; she just knew that there was probably a good reason. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"Do not speak to me in such a manner Potter," Blackheart scoffed. "Ten points from Gryffindor for talking back to me. And for your information, I do have a problem with Lupin's absence as he is missing my valuable class time."
"Professor Blackheart, I told Remus I would take any notes for him and-," Lily started to explain.
"Did I give you permission to speak Evans?" Blackheart interrupted her coldly. Lily could see a crazy glint in his eye, but could not fathom what it meant.
"Well, no sir, but I thought-,"
"But nothing Evans. And please keep your petty thoughts to yourself," He drawled. Then he continued to do the attendance.
The rest of the class was mostly like that. Someone saying something and Blackheart sneering at them. Lily was so relieved when class was over. Of course he gave them two essays, but they weren't due until the next week. Lily walked out of class feeling mildly annoyed and insulted. "I think Professor Blackheart has something against muggleborns," she said to Melissa who was walking beside her.
"Well he is awful mean to us in general," Melissa admitted thoughtfully. "But it's not like he's any nicer to anyone else in the class."
"Yes, I guess your right," Lily said uncertainly.
They continued on to Transfiguration where they mostly took notes on everything. Sirius and James got another detention from McGonagall when they were caught passing notes. When Lily looked back at them she noticed it looked like they were having a pretty serious conversation. One of Lily's faults, she seemed to think she had many, was that she was a very curious person. Of course, she new the saying 'Curiosity killed the cat' but she couldn't really help herself. It might have been the one thing she and Petunia had in common. But while Lily had only a mild curiosity about things, Petunia was just plain nosy.
Dinner was uneventful and Lily and her friends trudged back up to the Gryffindor Tower to await their Astronomy lesson at mid-night. The Common Room was a noisy and Lily wished she could go to the Library to start her homework but it closed after dinner. She tried to concentrate on her Herbology homework but it seemed impossible. She and Melissa were the only two of their friends trying to do homework. A loud BANG! came from the corner where James, Sirius, and Peter were probably putting together a new prank. Lily rolled her eyes and slammed her book closed, emitting a shriek from Melissa, who looked at her startled.
"I'm sorry, it's just that this entire day has been pointless. I get in a fight with James, lessons were rubbish, and I just can't concentrate on my homework with all this racket going on," Lily ranted to her.
Melissa closed her own textbook more quietly. "I know exactly how you feel. And it's not as though we haven't finished the homework that's due tomorrow. So let's relax," Melissa said, taking off her shoes and putting her feet up on the table.
Lily mirrored her pose and reached up to take her hair out of its tight ponytail. It tumbled down past her shoulders and she ran her hand through it to smooth it down. After her eyes, her brilliant red hair was the thing she liked most about her appearance. She had inherited it from her father while she had gotten her mother's flashing green eyes.
"Let's have a girl talk session," Melissa suggested suddenly. Before Lily even had a chance to reply, Melissa called Shannon and Kelly over to them. They both looked at her quizzically and Melissa gestured to the chairs. "Sit, we're going to have a bit of a girl talk because I'm bored."
"You are so strange," Kelly informed her.
"I know," Melissa shrugged. She leaned in closer to the girls and looked pointedly at a boy on the other side of the room. "That lad over there is so cute. His name's Brian Bonds and he's a fourth year. He's on the Quidditch Team. Very fit."
Lily, Shannon, and Kelly looked at her incredulously. "I thought you said this was going to be girl talk, not boy talk," Kelly reminded her. Melissa shrugged again in response.
"He's too old for you anyway," Lily reprimanded slightly.
Melissa pouted at her and looked across the room at Brian again. "Too bad."
"Oh let her look Lily," Shannon said slyly. "She just can't touch. Anyway, you want to know who's really quiet a looker. You know Jackie Lu in Ravenclaw? Well she told me all about this way cute bloke in Ravenclaw. He's also a fourth year. His name's Andrew Daniels and he's so cute! I've seen it myself. I think he also has a first year brother in Ravenclaw. I wonder if he's as cute..." Shannon trailed off and stared into space thoughtfully.
Oh, God, please help me, Lily prayed. She didn't think he roommates would turn into love struck girls after a glance at one guy. "Don't you think you lot ought to find boys your own age. Like in the same year," Lily advised.
"Oh, where's the fun in that?" Melissa asked. "Besides, there're no cute boys in our year that I've seen."
"Oh, that is where you are very wrong, my dear," a voice said behind them. It was Sirius, of course, with James and Peter.
Melissa immediately became defensive. "Oh yeah? How?"
"Well you see, I am simply the most devilishly handsome bloke in the whole school, so you can't say there're no cute boys in our year," Sirius answered smoothly, inspecting his nails arrogantly.
Melissa looked at him as though he had grown two more heads out of his neck and shook her head in disbelief. "What sort of dream world do you live in?"
"A very nice one. Want to come into it with me, love?"
Melissa paused and pretended to think about it. "How about no."
Sirius put a mock-disappointed look on his face and snapped his fingers in defeat while Melissa smirked at him. "You two really are the most amusing people," James said laughing.
"I don't know about that James," Peter disagreed. "When you and Lily are having a row, I think it's pretty entertaining."
"Well then your entertainment's over then," James informed him, coming up behind Lily and patting her on the head, "because Lily and I are never going to have another row again."
"You pat me on the head again and I'll show you the meaning of row," Lily threatened him in a sweet voice.
"Of course."
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Omg, omg, omg!! I feel like I'm the most horrible person in the world for not posting in almost over a month! I am sooooooo sorry to keep you all waiting! It's just that(now I'm going to make a lot of excuses) after I got the last chapter out I had finals. And I definitely started to write this chapter the day after school got out! I forgot to say in my last chapter that I was going on vacation on July 3rd because I thought I would get this chapter up by then. I just got back from Mexico on Monday. I'm soooooooooooooooooo sorry!!
Anyway I think this post is my worst post ever! It goes with the title. It's absolutely pointless. You could call it a transition chapter. You could literally skip this chapter and go on to the next one. Again I'm so sorry!!! I'm hoping the next chapter is going to be better. I love you all sooo much! Please review!!
Melissa
P.S. I changed the whole Molly Prewett thing from chapter 5 just so you people know. I also changed the color of Sirius' eyes because on it says his eyes are gray.